The most notable aspect of the festival’s 28th edition, however, may just be a surge in quality brought on by the new limitations of the business, particularly on the narrative side. (Campos is part of Borderline Films, which also produced Sean Durkin’s 2011 drama Martha Marcy May Marlene, and he had his film Afterschool at Cannes in 2008.) “That one’s going to rattle some cages,” says director of programming Trevor Groth.Įvery year when the program is announced, journalists and other observers inevitably search for trends and messages in the films and filmmakers that have been selected. Meanwhile, Antonio Campos’ intense Simon Killer, about a recent college graduate who falls in love with a Paris prostitute, could provide some provocation. PHOTOS: What to Pack When Heading to Sundance Some are straightforward, some novel and some offbeat but always interesting.” “So what are they doing? What are they saying? They are making statements about the changing world we are living in. “We are, and always have been, a festival about the filmmakers,” said Sundance Institute founder and president Robert Redford. Sheldon Candis’ Luv features an orphaned 11-year-old Baltimore boy coming to terms with the truth about his uncle, while Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere follows an African-American woman struggling to keep her identity after her husband is incarcerated. PHOTOS: Behind the Scenes at the Sundance Film FestivalĪctor-writer Mark Webber, who co-wrote Joshua Leonard’s 2011 Sundance premiere The Lie, will appear in two films in competition this year: Save the Date from filmmaker Michael Mohan, and The End of Love, which Webber also wrote and directed. Olmos’ Filly Brown, a drama about a Mexican girl who copes with her mother’s incarceration through hip-hop music. starring John Krasinski and Rosemarie DeWitt James Ponsoldt’s Smashed, about the effect on a young married couple when the woman decides to get sober and Youssef Delara and Michael D. narrative competition consists of 16 world premieres, including So Yong Kim’s For Ellen, about a struggling musician fighting for custody of his daughter starring Paul Dano and Jena Malone Ry Russo-Young’s Nobody Walks, which follows a New York City artist as she wreaks havoc with one family’s lives over a weeklong visit in L.A. With so many financial challenges you would think it wouldn’t be, but maybe that’s that whole thing of art succeeding more when there are a lot of challenges to the world itself.” “The independent film movement is very healthy right now,” says Cooper, in his third year as director. THE MEMORY THIEF, Mark Webber (center), 2007.PHOTOS: Actors and Filmmakers of Sundance 2011 ph: Jim Bridges/©Lions Gate THE MEMORY THIEF, Mark Webber (far left), 2007. ph: Scott Green/© A24 DRIVE ME CRAZY, Mark Webber, 1999, TM and Copyright (c)20th Century Fox Film Corp. Ph: Maureen Brannelly/©Lightning Media (II) STORYTELLING, Mark Webber, Paul Giamatti, Mike Schank, 2001 GREEN ROOM, Mark Webber, 2015. ©Warner Bros LIFE IS HOT IN CRACKTOWN, from left: Mark Webber, Kerry Washington, 2009. ph: Jim Bridges/©Lions Gate SNOW DAY, Chevy Chase, Mark Webber, Schuyler Fisk, 2000, (c)Paramount SNOW DAY, Mark Webber, David Paetkau, 2000, (c)Paramount SNOW DAY, Mark Webber, Chevy Chase, Schuyler Fisk, 2000 THE RISING PLACE, Laurel Holloman, Mark Webber, 2001. ©Think Film JESSABELLE, l-r: Mark Webber, Amber Stevens, 2014. ph: Jim Bridges/©Lions Gate THE HOTTEST STATE, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Mark Webber, 2006. WINTER SOLSTICE, Aaron Stanford, Mark Webber, 2004, ©Paramount Classics JESSABELLE, l-r: Mark Webber, Sarah Snook, 2014. GOOD DICK, from left: Martin Starr, Mark Webber, Jason Ritter (sitting), Eric Edelstein, 2008. GOOD DICK, from left: Mark Webber, Eric Edelstein, Martin Starr, 2008. ph: Jim Bridges/©Lions Gate THE GOOD LIFE, Mark Webber, Patrick Fugit, director Stephen Berra, Chris Klein, on set, 2007. ph: Jim Bridges/©Lions Gate JESSABELLE, l-r: Mark Webber, Sarah Snook, 2014. The Memory Thief The Place of No Words The Place of No Words Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot Photos JESSABELLE, front to back: Mark Webber, Amber Stevens, 2014.
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